
Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising

What am I making this mean?
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
Mindful observation will reveal that any craving or clinging is always accompanied by, and reflected in, blocks and knots in the subtle body.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
typically we do not deliberately choose our way of looking at any situation. It is imposed on us, rather, by the habits of the mind.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
the appearance of an object depends on the way of looking.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
proceed gradually with whatever letting go you can actually feel, in your own practice, through seeing an emptiness that’s accessible to you right now.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
the perceived movements of breath in the whole body space move and spread the perception of the pleasure.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
do something about it – stop it perhaps, or fabricate something else that doesn’t bring so much dukkha.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
Believing then that this real self can really gain or lose real things or experiences which have real qualities, grasping and aversion, and thus dukkha, arise inevitably.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
About all this, for now, we simply want to point out that it can be very helpful, when the awareness is unwisely sucked in in this way, to pay attention deliberately to a sense of space.